opportunity for his case wanting to be a law enforcement police officer in america. why? the usa has the best police officers. he wanted to do it in california and america. jon: quality is live modesto california. this. two days ring fit the mood as the tightknit central valley remembered one of its finest to true hero and a patriot. thousands of uniformed officers came here from around the country to pay their respects and so the corporal ronil singh one last time. many were his badge number 282 on top of their own black mourning bands. singh was a seven-year veteran of the newman police office outside of and newman california three chief randy richardson described how corporal singh who immigrated to the u.s. from fiji
for the men and women who fought and fight to make this country such a desirable place to live do the right thing and come here legally and become a responsible citizen. really powerful message there, and i think you re going to find these stories are touching people throughout the country, you know, this these are preventable instances of tragedy and this is why this border security today becomes real and tangible for people. people are dying over this, and i think this is what s going to hit home, especially when you have members of families coming out and saying this illegal immigration where you can t screen these people, where you have, you know, gangs coming over, where you have convicted people who are convicted of crimes coming over, where you have instances like this that are preventable, these are our family members you re taking. ed: chief richardson who we showed a moment ago has tried to stay out of the political debate saying i got to focus on the funeral and the fam
of the story; right? what s real about the crisis which even the washington post seems to be acknowledging is a crisis of illegal immigration is that it is affecting our communities. it s not just a problem at the border. it s in california. it s in tennessee which we ll get to in a moment. let s start in california. officer singh tragically murdered on christmas night leaving behind a widow and a 5 month old son killed by an illegal immigrant. and there was just a remarkable coming together yesterday at his funeral out in california. pete: outpouring, thousands of sheriff s deputies, sheriffs officers converging in month des on, california, which is near newman where he was a part of that police department. multiple overflow rooms, over overcrowded, seven-mile procession with people standing hands over their heart honoring this fallen hero, and chief randy richardson of the newman police department was on our program recently. but he had the tough task of standing at that podium and m
officer was preventable. it was an illegal immigrant. let s not forget the details. when caught he tried to flee to mexico, he had a brother and co coworker and others who were arrested for trying to cover.up pete: two prior dwis he could have been reported to i.c.e. since it was a sanctuary state. this is not political. if you read wendy corcoran s, nothing political about it at all. nothing political about it at all. the whole statement is remembering her son. when you hear this for god s sake, out of respect for our country do the right thing, come here legally and become a responsible citizen, to think you re not here illegally, it s a one strike and you re out system, one, two, three, four, we re not reporting them to i.c.e. it s a real problem. jedediah: it should have been political to follow the laws. you re talking about about lawbreaking. we are a country of laws. that should be a unifying element and it s kind of disgraceful that it s not. ed: as chief richardson said we l
thank you for being the police officer, the k-9 officer, the corporal that everybody should strive to be. we will say good-bye today, but you will always be in our hearts hearts. and we ll take it from here. ed: well, you know, he went to say, in fact, that officer singh made a point of learning english and getting better and better practicing it, because he wanted to connect with people in the community. he wanted if he needed if there was an emergency situation he needed to tell a family do this, avoid that, as a police officer, he wanted to be able to communicate. he went out of his way to make sure his english was good. remember, last weekend we not only had chief richardson on a.d. program, we had frank sill siller from tunnels2tower.org. you can go to tunnels2tower.org.